Figure 1. A 30-year perspective of FRDA research.

Blue bars depict the number of publications appearing in PubMed per year from 1988 – 2017. The data was obtained by entering the search criteria “Friedreich’s ataxia” OR “Friedreich ataxia” OR “frataxin” in PubMed. The black line depicts the dollar amount (in millions) corresponding to grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) per year from 1988 – 2017 as identified by entering the search terms “Friedreich’s ataxia” OR “Friedreich ataxia” OR “frataxin” in the NIH RePORT search engineⁱⁱ. The orange bars show the number of clinical trials initiated per year from 1988 – 2017 as identified on ClinicalTrials.govⁱⁱⁱ using the search term “Friedreich’s ataxia”.